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jmasterx
jmasterx

Reputation: 54133

Multi color Edit Field (Win32)

I want to create a program that will parse text for key words and make these words a certain color. What type of control supports many different colors? Would I have to create my own, or override the OnPaint() of a basic control or something? (Id like to avoid making my own control from scratch)

Thanks

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1421

Answers (2)

Kyle Alons
Kyle Alons

Reputation: 7135

One option would be to use the rich edit control:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081210064447/http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/RichEditLog_Demo.aspx

Another option would be to build a custom control:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090228184337/http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/brainchild.aspx

Upvotes: 3

Jerry Coffin
Jerry Coffin

Reputation: 490338

The standard rich-edit control will handle that quite easily.

Upvotes: 1

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